Über die geldpolitische Strategie der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) ist in den vier Jahren ihres Bestehens vielfach diskutiert worden. Für dieses Jahr plant nun die EZB selbst eine Überprüfung ihrer Zwei-Säulen-Strategie. Um den Marktteilnehmern eine eindeutige Richtschnur zu geben,...

The durable goods sector is much more interest sensitive than the non-durables sector, and these sectoral differences have important implications for monetary policy. In this paper, we perform VAR analysis of quarterly US data and find that a monetary policy innovation has a peak impact on...

“Forecast targeting,” forward-looking monetary policy that uses central-bank judgment to construct optimal policy projections of the target variables and the instrument rate, may perform substantially better than monetary policy that disregards judgment and follows a given instrument rule....

This paper shows that the credibility gain from permanently committing to a fixed exchange rate by joining the European Monetary Union can outweigh the loss from giving up independent monetary policy. When the central bank enjoys only limited credibility a pegged exchange rate regime yields a...